substantial bridges over the heads of rivers, creeks, branches or swamps, where the same shall be
necessary as aforesaid, or shall not remove all nuisances from the said roads, or shall not well and
sufficiently causeway all and singular such places in and upon the said roads as shall require the same,
or shall permit or suffer any fallen trees, or other obstruction, to remian in or across any of the said
public roads for the space of two days after notice thereof, or shall neglect to fell, or cause to be
felled and removed, all decayed or dead trees on either side of the said public roads, whose limbs or
any of them hang over the same, and may by their falling injure travellers, or shall not lop and cut
off all limbs or branches of trees hanging or projecting over the said roads, within fifteen feet above
the surface thereof, or shall in any other manner fail or neglect to perform the duties of an overseer
of the said roads, according to the directions of this act, every such overseer, so failing or neglect-
in, shall forfeit an dpay a sum not exceeding five dollars for every offence, except in the time of
wheat harvest.

VII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may be lawful for the several and respective over-
seers of the said roads, and they are hereby authorised and empowered, as often as need shall re-
quire, to dig, take and remove, any stones, gravel or earth, which may be found on any land ad-
joining the roads for which the same may be necessary, and to employ the same in the repairing of
the said roads; and for the making or repairing of bridges over the heads of rivers, creeks,
branches, swamps, or other low and miry places, through an dover which the said roads may pass, to
cut down, or cause to be cut down, any tree or trees growing on any of the next adjacent lands to
such places where bridges or causeways may be necessary as aforesaid, and the same trees to maul
and carry away off such lands, and to apply the same to the making or repairing of the said bridges
or causeways; provided always, that no enclosures shall be laid open or entered into to obtain the
several materials aforesaid, or any of them, without the consent of the owner or owners thereof.

VIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That due compensation be made or secured to him or them by the
county for the several materials aforesaid, according to the full value thereof, in such manner as
the said levy court shall direct and appoint.

IX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said overseers shall have power, and they are hereby autho-
rised and required, to call for all and singular the able bodied free male inhabitants of their re-
spective limits above the age of twenty-one years, and under the age of fifty years, and upon all and
singular the able bodied male servants and slaves residing therein above the age of sixteen years, and
under the age of fifty years, to labour and assist in clearing, amending, improving and repairing,
the several and respective roads aforesaid, and to require such and so many of the said persons as
they shall from time to time deem necessary, to assemble at such place within their respective limits,
as the said overseers shall severally appoint, with sufficient implements, and thereupon to proceed in
the execution of such work upon the said roads, for the improvement and repair thereof, as the re-
spective overseers shall order and direct; and the said overseers shall also have power to hire and
employ carts and teams for the carrying and removing all such stones, dirt, gravel and timber, as
may be deemed requisite for repairing and completing the said roads and bridges, and the expence of
such carts and teams shall be levied upon the county.

X. AND BE IT ENACTED, That within one month after the receipt of their respective warrants,
the several overseers aforesaid, under the direction of the said levy court, shall take down a proper list
of the names of all and singular the able bodied free male inhabitants residing therein above the age
of twenty-one years, and under the age of fifty years, and of all the able bodied male servants and
slaves above the age of sixteen years, and under the age of fifty years; and the said overseers shall
justly and impartially call for and require the labour of all and singular the persons aforesaid, alter-
nately, and in such convenient numbers and classes as to place the burthen of their service equally
upon all; provided nevertheless, that in the labour of the said persons shall not be called forth for the
purposes of this act during the season of wheat harvest, nor in such manner as to take more than
half the number of persons aforesaid belonging to one family at the same time.

XI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That as often as the said overseers shall judge it necessary to call upon
the said inhabitants for their labour in and upon the said roads, they shall summon, or cause to be
summoned, the number and class which they shall have previously arranged, having had regard to
the quantity and quality of work necessary to be done upon the said roads, giving each free person
liable to work upon the same, and the master, mistress or overseer of each servant or slave aforesaid,
two days notice at the least, of the time and place appointed for their labour, except in such extraor-
dinary cases as may require a shorter notice, and every free person liable to work upon the roads, so
                                           C c c c c c 2                                                                   summoned,

CHAP.
LXXXI.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

They may dig
and remove
stones, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Compensations
to be made, &c.
 

Overseers to
call on all free
male inhabi-
tants, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Take a list of
names, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Summon the 
class arranged,
&c.